How to use "Remote Home-Assistant"

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HI all.
I have a 2 story house + basement with a disconnected garage and I am having endless issues with Zwave range. The backside of my house closest the garage is peppered with zwave outlets as well as the garage, but it’s just not enough to make things reliable. Then I found “Remote Home-Assistant”. My issues will be solved right? Possibly, but I’m having difficulties setting it up and the git repo is a bit thin on documentation.

I have a few questions for anybody who may have set this up themselves at some point.

  • Do you use the same network key on both Zwave devices or different ones?

  • Is the Node numbering an issue? For example, can both Zwave devices sit as node 1 on each HA instance?

  • Do I do the full OpenZwave Beta on the slave as well? If so, do I connect to my master MQTT broker or make another independent one?

At this point, all I seem to be doing is making more broken and unavailable entities than anything else. i.e. a bigger mess.

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  1. Up to you, good practice would be different
  2. Doesn’t matter, those are separate meshes
  3. Don’t use OZW so can’t comment I’m afraid
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Thanks @Tinkerer. The magic sauce for me was to run another MQTT server on the client. When I hooked into my main one nothing was ever available.

After a solid two weeks of fiddling about I finally can open and close the deadbolt on my garage door. I’m not even happy, I’m just ready to stop thinking about it. :joy::checkered_flag:

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